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Musical light show planned at four tourist spots

Those identified spots include Victoria Memorial Hall, Nakhoda Maszid, St Paul''s Church, and Town Hall.




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Doctors, retd judges line up at BJP office for LS ticket

Modi effect: 230 have applied; party yet to name its own men.




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Lifer found hanging in Presidency Jail

A prisoner at Presidency Jail was found hanging in the washroom of his cell Sunday morning, the police said.




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Dissatisfied with police, HC asks CID to probe dowry torture case

After going through the BPC report, Justice Sanjib Banerjee said the police did not investigate into the FIR.




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Didi criticises Mulayam's demand for ban on English

Yadav had Sunday said that MPs should be banned from making speeches in English in Parliament.




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173 years on, Auckland Hotel is reborn Lalit Great Eastern Hotel

Mamata said it was good to see that many new hotels were coming up in Kolkata.




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AC stripped off charge of 2 police stations

Basu was stripped off the charge of Park Street and Shakespeare Sarani police stations.




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Family belies KMC claim on migrant''s return from Saudi




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HC seeks affidavit from TMC leader for 'threatening'' Alipore CJM

The report, against which the hearing came up today, presented the details.




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Kolkata now gold smuggling transit point

29 kg gold, including 24 kilos from an aeroplane toilet, seized in last 24 hrs




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Jyoti Basu statue vandalised in Howrah

Meanwhile, the incident sparked protests from locals who blocked J N Mukherjee Road in Howrah.




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HC seeks reply from RVNL on filling up of water bodies

RVNL, which started work in 2011-2012, has filled up several water bodies thereby affecting the ecological balance of the area, the petition alleged .




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Space at Re 1 for banks willing to open branches in gram panchayats: Mamata

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said two years form now no Gram Panchayat in the state would be without banking service.




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GJM wishlist: Hill tribe status for Gorkhas, right to collect revenue

Tripartite meet : Demands 3-tier Panchayati Raj system in hills, backward status for GTA area




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Civic polls: Repoll ordered in six booths of 3 municipalities

The State Election Commission Saturday announced repoll in six booths in Howrah, Krishnanagar and Bidhannagar municipalities where the election were held Friday.




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Court sends Ghosh to police custody

Cops raid MP''s home after FB post, seize hard disk. TMC says 'fire started by Ghosh will decimate many''.




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Kamduni case: Chargesheet to be translated in Bengali for acccused

A second fast track court at the City Sessions Court Monday asked the chargesheet in the Kamduni rape case be translated to Bengali and handed over to the accused, Rafiqul Islam, before the next hearing on December 11.




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Govt bans union rallies, protests at Nabanna

In A move that has angered even those who owe allegiance to the ruling Trinamool Congress, the Mamata Banerjee government Tuesday banned all processions, rallies and demonstrations by government employees at Nabanna, the new secretariat building at Howrah.




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Those named by Ghosh have no link with Saradha: Sudipta

Sudipta Sen, chairman of the bust Saradha Group that left thousands defrauded, Tuesday said that the persons named by arrested Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in a Facebook post, had no link with his company.




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Biman Bose deposes before panel probing ''93 police firing

Biman Bose Tuesday deposed before a commission set up to probe into the police firing on a Youth Congress rally.




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Ghosh FB post: Police to file impersonation case

Police will lodge a case of impersonation against unidentified persons for using the Facebook account of Kunal Ghosh.




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Cong''s split wide open as scuffles mar law violation

PCC chief calls off programme, faction led by Mala Roy goes ahead with it.




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The man known for cancelling 2G licences

A K Ganguly is best known for being part of the bench that quashed 122 2G spectrum licences issued in 2008.




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No regrets, my action was in public interest: IPS officer

DM granted bail after cops tell court he gave all the required info in one day




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Buddha calls for consolidation of Left forces

He said the party needed to motivate people to build a movement against "state-sponsored terrorism".




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Not averse to politics, says Pranab daughter

Sharmistha addressed a series of rallies for Congress in Delhi, which is going to polls on December 4.




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Police commissioner removed to stop truth from coming out: LF

Bose pointed to the multi crore Saradha Chit Fund scam in which a Trianamool Congress MP has been arrested and the one in the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority and condemned them.




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Bengal lifts ban on potato export

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday lifted the ban on potato and vegetable export, allowing their movement from West Bengal to other states.




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TMC wants Ganguly to step down, NGO files police complaint

Derek O''Brien said TMC has followed an approach of zero tolerance when it comes to safety and dignity of women in the workplace.




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FIR against Taslima for 'hurting religious sentiments''

Taslima had criticised a meeting between AAP''s Arvind Kejriwal and UP cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan on Twitter.




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Far away in Kolkata, Mandela lives on

CM Jyoti Basu had received Mandela and a civic reception was accorded to him at the Eden Gardens.




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MiG-21 FL jet, workhorse of the Indian Air Force, flies into history

Operational conversion unit bid farewell to its oldest workhorse after five decades of service.




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Father loses 13-yr-old daughter in gambling, to marry her off to winner

The girl, a Class VIII student, stopped attending school after she got engaged.




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Team led by Muslim cleric to tour country to pitch Didi as PM face

Mamata is said to have called Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Masjid and sought support.




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Short Street case: Sub-Inspector in police custody till Dec 19

Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.




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Taslima moves SC, seeks protection from arrest

The apex court is already seized of a bunch of matters over validity of Section 66A.




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300 killed in Bangladesh, political scenario polarised: Dhaka University professor

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.




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Presidential Reference: Ball in AG court to work out legalities

The matter has now been referred to Attorney General G E Vahanvati to work out legal details.




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Taslima''s TV serial postponed after Muslim bodies protest

Taslima told PTI that the story of the serial, which was earlier scheduled to be broadcast from Thursday night on the newly launched 'Aakash Aath'' channel, is about a Hindu family settled in the city.




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Oppn lashes out at govt for scrapping Taslima serial

The state government''s directive to a private channel to stop airing a serial based on a story by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has raised the hackles of Opposition parties.




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Dealing with domestic violence

The emotive issue of domestic violence and the different ways in which it is tackled in the US and India was discussed at length when an NGO invited a US police chief over recently.




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'Taslima serial blocked on Mamata command''

TV serial written by Taslima Nasreen was postponed with the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.




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Mamata likely to shed some depts in Dec 26 reshuffle

Even the Trinamool leaders claimed to be in dark about the impending reshuffle.




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Do politicians quit on allegations, asks former Bengal Lokayukta

Bandopadhyay also questioned the pressure being put on Ganguly to step down as the WBHRC chairman.




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Mamata ministry reshuffle likely today

There was no official announcement whether portfolios of existing ministers would be changed, or anyone would be dropped.




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Mamata strips Partha of industry portfolio

Cabinet reshuffle : Replaces senior leader with Amit Mitra; inducts 2 new faces




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For Modi''s Kolkata rally, online booking of seats, entry fee

A majority of people will have to pay up to get a glimpse of BJP''s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on February 5.




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After 2,200-yr old lion capital damaged at National Museum, staff try cover-up

The seven-feet long sculpture, weighing several tonnes, allegedly fell and broke into two halves during shifting.




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'Police trying to frame KLO''

The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) Friday denied any involvement in Thursday night''s cycle bomb explosion at Jalpaiguri and blamed the police for creating a "misunderstanding".




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No data to prove cycling ban will improve traffic: Police

The Kolkata police has admitted that the blanket ban on cycling and other forms of non-motorised transport in the city was initiated without making any study on how the ban would improve traffic.